Diablo IV

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2.0

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  1. McCommi
    Jun 10, 2023
    1
    Diablo, which used to be the epitome of hack and slash, has vanished and has now turned into a despicable game that maliciously aims to create unpleasant experiences for users and keep them hooked for longer.
  2. Rubistone
    Jun 12, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 falls disappointingly short of expectations, earning a 4 out of 10. The lackluster story fails to engage players, while the MMO elements feel forced and underdeveloped. The game's FOMO design decisions, including an overwhelming number of monetization strategies like a battle pass, early access pass, and in-game shop, reveal Blizzard's immense greed. Moreover, the endgame becomesDiablo 4 falls disappointingly short of expectations, earning a 4 out of 10. The lackluster story fails to engage players, while the MMO elements feel forced and underdeveloped. The game's FOMO design decisions, including an overwhelming number of monetization strategies like a battle pass, early access pass, and in-game shop, reveal Blizzard's immense greed. Moreover, the endgame becomes tiresome due to its repetitive nature and lack of innovation. Surprisingly, leveling up actually makes you feel weaker, undermining the sense of progression. With unbalanced gameplay and a steep price tag of $70, Diablo 4 leaves players feeling let down and yearning for the glory days of the franchise.

    0/10 to balance out the weird "10/10" bomb reviews after a reddit post.    … Expand
  3. tdebug
    Jun 14, 2023
    1
    You cannot even change the screen resolution in the game. I guess blizzard quality never changes.
  4. BattlefieldFail
    Jun 17, 2023
    0
    Really good early game and has a lot of feature potential for seasons and expansion.
  5. Mordius71
    Jun 13, 2023
    0
    For the time we've been waiting for it, and all the missing features, the diablo inmortal UI, the shop, the repetitive endgame, the lack of build diversity, the inexistence of customizable atributes, the **** itemization (like in D3), the price, the season pass, and much more, it doesn't deserve more than a 0. I wanted it to be good, it is just plain garbage.
  6. Tanphu
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Game have online check, microtransaction,recently the horrible update, definitely billizard
  7. TAMLIEU
    Jun 14, 2023
    0
    For all Blizzard's andies telling us that "D2 D3 hAve the Same ProbLem AT Start" "LEave DEV AloNE!!!". You don't buy a car, and your dealer tell you that you will get your "fun" fuel years later. Meanwhile, just push the car. D4 graphic looks very good, everything else from story, contents are mind-numbing.

    Sure it may get fix years later, but It isn't their first time making Diablo.    For all Blizzard's andies telling us that "D2 D3 hAve the Same ProbLem AT Start" "LEave DEV AloNE!!!". You don't buy a car, and your dealer tell you that you will get your "fun" fuel years later. Meanwhile, just push the car. D4 graphic looks very good, everything else from story, contents are mind-numbing.

    Sure it may get fix years later, but It isn't their first time making Diablo. This is Blizzard’s 4th “Diablo” game with $70 for base game, MTX, battle passes, expansions. For these, I have very high standard for their game. They charge premium price up-front, I expected premium experience. Not this half-baked, boring.    … Expand
  8. d1versify
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    When early game levelling feels unrewarding, not fun, sometimes hard, what do you expect?
    Furthermore i didn't like the Lost Ark feel I got from it, an Asian mmo like game, which I disliked a lot
  9. idmjhxspgbabttv
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    I recently had the misfortune of playing Diablo, and I must say it was an experience that left me utterly unimpressed. As a long-time fan of the franchise, I had high hopes for this installment, but it ended up being a soulless, disappointing journey into the abyss of gaming mediocrity.
  10. qweqweqweqwewq
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    Game is really boring, optimization is total disaster - on RTX 3080 Asus ROG, 32GM ram, Ryzen 9 3900X and NVMe storage games sometimes goes from 200 to ~5 FPS with no reason for it (like while moving in town with no other players around). Also it crushes sometimes but in the most inconvenient moments (but it killed some streamers playing HC on lvls > 70) - like when you wasted 20 min ofGame is really boring, optimization is total disaster - on RTX 3080 Asus ROG, 32GM ram, Ryzen 9 3900X and NVMe storage games sometimes goes from 200 to ~5 FPS with no reason for it (like while moving in town with no other players around). Also it crushes sometimes but in the most inconvenient moments (but it killed some streamers playing HC on lvls > 70) - like when you wasted 20 min of your life to run from one point to another and didn't managed to get waypoint because game crashed when you were about to, etc.
    Also price is complete joke - it should cost ~20 euro for what it offers    … Expand
  11. TreacherousDeer
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Diablo IV - walking simulator on rails.

    Starts off with pay to win 30€ early access and a non-ssf HC "race" dominated by group play spam-resetting the same dungeon over and over.

    Boring itemization and barebones skill-twig ("tree") with minimal effective choice.
    The monster killing portion of the gameplay is good, everything else is not.

    Every town is deliberately horribly ineffective in terms of crafting / storing stuff, requiring one to walk back and forth for a minute or two depending on the use case, of course the horse isn't allowed to gallop inside and near towns.

    The endgame is weaker than path of exile was literally 10 years ago. Nightmare Dungeons require a 1-2 minute walk every time, incentivizing preparing a set of identical dungeons, so that you don't have to walk there every time. Each "unique" dungeon has always the same boring objectives and boss (if there even is one) and requires backtracking, sometimes requiring players to backtrack for multiple minutes per dungeon. To top it off, there's only 22 dungeons that can be nightmare dungeons, despite there being 100+ in the game.

    The level-scaling is absolutely mind-boggling. Zones that are lower level than you will downscale your character, meaning you technically get weaker per level in low-level zones, similarly, monsters that are higher level than you gain damage reduction and deal more damage to you.

    The "trade system" is ridiculous. Any item that's legendary or unique cannot be traded. Any item that's been upgraded by the black smith cannot be traded. In other words, any item that you use becomes account bound and can at best be reused by another of your characters. This also means that most* account bound item upgrades make the prior item absolutely worthless.
    Furthermore, the level requirement of items is at least as high as your current level, this means you could find a rare item (that would normally only require level 60 to equip that would be useful to your friend or another character of yours), BUT they'll need to reach your level, so even if you happen to find something useful for another character (which is rare to begin with thanks to "smart loot"), you can't use it anyway unless that other character is on a similar level.

    Hardcore is kind of a joke. There is cheat death elixirs farmable for everyone and a cheat death mechanic for sorcerer, in combination with the scroll of escape. This means that for example the pinnacle level 100 boss can be killed with zero risk of death.

    Last but not least is stash space and console-port. The entire UI is obviously designed for consoles and doesn't feel or look good on pc, for example, one cannot search in the stash or on the skill/paragon tree (except for predefined terms LOL). You start off with one stash tab (10x5), every item takes up one stash slot (gems and elixirs are stackable) and can have up to 4 stash tabs. Those 4 tabs fill up very quickly with even one character.

    This is of course is an incomplete list of current issues.    … Expand
  12. kaidoflix
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    As you already know, the game is only half polished. Random disconnects leading to lose the whole progress (Nightmare Dungeon Keys or PvP Shards). This is the worst thing you can do as a developer. Punishing players for playing the game and losing all the progress just because the server instability. Those disconnects are not caused by my internet connection. There have been severalAs you already know, the game is only half polished. Random disconnects leading to lose the whole progress (Nightmare Dungeon Keys or PvP Shards). This is the worst thing you can do as a developer. Punishing players for playing the game and losing all the progress just because the server instability. Those disconnects are not caused by my internet connection. There have been several threads on the official forums of battle net as well.

    Diablo 4 was released as a fully finished product. For now this feels like a beta version and I feel hugely disappointed.
    The playerbase did not receive what Blizzard was advertising in the first place.    … Expand
  13. MostHonestGuy
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Positives
    + Altars was fun grind
    + Reputation grind was fun + Feels good to get small upgrades Negatives - UI is made for consoles - Lacks so many QOL things what would make game much smoother - Dungeons are extremely boring ~ every dungeon is pretty much same. I've done hundreds of nightmare dungeons and i can't even name one - Helltide doesn't have high enough monster density    Positives
    + Altars was fun grind
    + Reputation grind was fun
    + Feels good to get small upgrades

    Negatives
    - UI is made for consoles
    - Lacks so many QOL things what would make game much smoother
    - Dungeons are extremely boring ~ every dungeon is pretty much same. I've done hundreds of nightmare dungeons and i can't even name one
    - Helltide doesn't have high enough monster density
    - Dungeons doesn't have high enough monster density
    - Slay all goal while in dungeon is spat on your face
    - Combat/movement feels not so great if compared to Diablo 3.

    edit: after playing season 1 for 5 minutes i reduced my score    … Expand
  14. knotist
    Jul 20, 2023
    3
    This game released as not finished. And still looks like a mobile game. No end game. Short campaign. Just so average. Itemization is bad. Whole game is just very boring and not hooking you.

    Zoom is nonsense. Everything is zoomed a lot. And it kill the atmosphere.

    Also level scaling is very bad. You don't feel any progression on your character.
  15. Barbarian2023
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    Imagine investing your precious time towards a build only to realize half way that Blizzard has no respect what so ever for your time and decides, on the go, what they like and dont like about how items/build work and they hard nerf the sh out of your class.
    No they did not fixxed a bugged item or two!
    They nerfed the sh out of the items/skills that were working as designed ! For    Imagine investing your precious time towards a build only to realize half way that Blizzard has no respect what so ever for your time and decides, on the go, what they like and dont like about how items/build work and they hard nerf the sh out of your class.
    No they did not fixxed a bugged item or two!
    They nerfed the sh out of the items/skills that were working as designed !
    For Barbarian they were designed to have a hard time leveling up and a golden time in the endgame.
    Now the Barbs are having a hard time leveling up and a hard time dreaming about the endgame.

    Dont waste your time with this title !
    They are nerfing each and every build that is able to do end game content.
    I bet the next step will be to make something available in the shop so that you can buy the necessary power to be able to do the end game activities.

    If you do invest your time now you will then be commited. Just dont do it !!!    … Expand
  16. dropdtuned1
    Jun 11, 2023
    3
    Well, I'm at level 60 and I could not even imagine playing nightmare dungeons all the way to level 100. It seems like a phenominal waste of precious time. All they did was take D3 and add a few innovations from Lost Ark and POE...nothing new here.
  17. MrSupreme
    Aug 3, 2023
    1
    So played through campaign with 1 character, and got a total of 5 characters on T3 already so figured a good time to review.

    World / story. Story was decent, side quests forgettable. World events are ok, just lacks variety, gets boring quick or the voice lines makes no sense. (ghost complaining along the lines got lost in the woods, but the event is happening in a damn desert with no    So played through campaign with 1 character, and got a total of 5 characters on T3 already so figured a good time to review.

    World / story.
    Story was decent, side quests forgettable.
    World events are ok, just lacks variety, gets boring quick or the voice lines makes no sense. (ghost complaining along the lines got lost in the woods, but the event is happening in a damn desert with no tree in sight).
    3 world bosses only and one only every 6ish hours kind of sucks as you normally can only do 1 a day with the spawn times being so far apart.

    Gameplay
    Feels fine on the most part but there is this horrible issue where the character completely misses the target or fires the skill at another enemy, this has caused me a lot of deaths as something I need to kill gets ignored. if this is fixed perhaps I will give +1 to rating.
    Skill tree is meh compared to Diablo 3. The builds in Diablo 3 could vary so much and I loved it for it.
    Skills were completely changed in some cases by a click of a button, now you have to pay to change it? Why? There is no point to it. In Diablo 4 it is 2 options for a skill on what it does differently, and most of the times it is very minor changes.

    Performance
    Game is smooth once everything is loaded in, before that good luck with rubber banding after you return to town or back to where you just were. They are trying to make it seems like they have these amazing short loading times between areas but stuff are not loaded in yet. I would rather wait the extra 5-10s and have a smooth experience than what ever this garbage is.

    General stuff
    For some reason this online game again, no point though as you mostly play alone or with some friends at most. The open world MMO experience is just bad, you see a person do things but you never communicate, there is no point to it. Elden Ring's system had more interaction and those were some word on the floor.
    4 stash tabs, that is it, they are also small so good luck storing all your items and all the potions and all the legendary aspects. Per character.
    Also gems worth 4 gold? and a white item more than that? feels like they just assigned some random value and forgot to change it back.
    rerolling item stats are stupidly expensive, starts at 20kish and next roll it is already 100K+, their balance team are clearly bad.
    Reroll a character skills costs 150k where I am at.
    Some endgame content is unbalanced or not rewarding enough for the effort you need to put in.
    Loot drops are unrefined and just plain bad atm.
    World lvl 50 is where you start T3 on avg and endgame starts and items lvl 50+ have better stat rolls on them. You do the world boss and it drops lvl 44 legendaries which is garbage since you are 50+ on T3 and your yellow items are better than they are. This also happened turning in the tree of whispers' and getting rewarded with subpar items.
    There are still bugs in their dungeons' progression as multiple times I got stuck not able to progress in the dungeon and had to restart it.
    Also be prepared for unexpected server restarts as they do not have any warning in place, so enjoy redoing the stronghold or dungeons.

    Shop is trash, prices are insane and it should be criminal to charge so much for stuff after charging a ridiculous amount for the base game in the first place.
    There are some cosmetics for the horse dropping, but very rare, got like 2 in about 70ish hours of playing.

    Releasing the game on a Tuesday and 4 days early access by paying more is just scum, honestly.

    TLDR
    Activision Blizzard is being greedy once again, the game is average at best currently and not worth the price. Plenty of bugs and boring skill system makes me not want to continue playing for much longer. Should have been an offline game, as it is a bad attempt of an online game.

    Update:
    S1 patch notes just dropped and time to nerf the scores just like all the classes in the game. -2 to Score
    Update 2:
    Just tried to play the season and loading simulator season 1, uninstalling. -2
    Update 3
    Baldur's Gate 3 is awesome, don't think I will ever reinstall Diablo 4, BG3 is how a game is supposed to be made.    … Expand
  18. Veela1989
    Jun 14, 2023
    0
    Up until yesterday this was a very fun game and I enjoyed it as much, if not more than Path of Exile. But it had now been made unenjoyable and obviously favours streamers or people that do not work.

    Nerfs to dungeons have ruined this game. What was fun is now boring and far to grindy. I love a grind game but Blizzard are doing it wrong. Basically now the streamers are 100 they are    Up until yesterday this was a very fun game and I enjoyed it as much, if not more than Path of Exile. But it had now been made unenjoyable and obviously favours streamers or people that do not work.

    Nerfs to dungeons have ruined this game. What was fun is now boring and far to grindy.

    I love a grind game but Blizzard are doing it wrong.

    Basically now the streamers are 100 they are ruining it for the normally playerbase.

    Path of Exile is an example of a fun grind.    … Expand
  19. Lem0
    Jun 14, 2023
    0
    This game is indie studio quality at best. Not worth 70 dollars. Im surprised after how ever many years of development this is what they have to show for it. Going from diablo 3 to this is a massive downgrade. It feels clunky as hell. You dont ever feel powerful due to the scaling. World bosses are a joke. I kept playing hoping for it to open up but it just left me disappointed. ItsThis game is indie studio quality at best. Not worth 70 dollars. Im surprised after how ever many years of development this is what they have to show for it. Going from diablo 3 to this is a massive downgrade. It feels clunky as hell. You dont ever feel powerful due to the scaling. World bosses are a joke. I kept playing hoping for it to open up but it just left me disappointed. Its definitely not worth the price. The people that are defending this game are delusional and worst of all waisting peoples time and money. Save the 70 and put it towards something more deserving.… Expand
  20. Fals3gods
    Jun 13, 2023
    0
    The game is great in terms of campaign story, music, environments. However, Blizzard is known to take the "fun" away silently (eg. see the new constant nerfs).

    It took them 1 week and instead of making the game a bit more fun, it's now very shallow. Not to mention all the other bad design decisions (rewards, quests, inexistent open world, etc).
  21. darknetwork
    Jun 14, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It started woth great story. However as the game progress, blizzard seems to be disconnected with how the game should be. They nerf every build, they nerf dungeon, reduce.mon density and elite dpawn rate. If you farm this dungeon now, tomorrow they will nerf it.… Expand
  22. Panchoss
    Aug 1, 2023
    0
    Okay, I thought that patch 1.1a was f**ked up badly but two days after this brilliant update they launched Season 1 and game stopped working at all - dungeons are not working, storyline is not working, game is frequently disconnecting.
    It's complete and total disaster.
  23. PickleWarrior
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Diablo 3 is better in every way other than graphics. It's laggy and the dev team seems determined to ruin the game with patches. As soon as you find something fun, they patch it out. Absolute trash.
  24. Rogdizzle
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    The game has been sort of decent, definitely not great. Only reason why I have given this a 1 versus a 0 is that the graphics are stunning. That said, this game has so many basic flaws within their features. ie Lack of inventory space, non searchable inventory, no filters, and the list is super long from the community. Then here comes the 1.1 patch before season 1 and I have never seen aThe game has been sort of decent, definitely not great. Only reason why I have given this a 1 versus a 0 is that the graphics are stunning. That said, this game has so many basic flaws within their features. ie Lack of inventory space, non searchable inventory, no filters, and the list is super long from the community. Then here comes the 1.1 patch before season 1 and I have never seen a patch so bad. You want to talk about destroying a game in less than 24 hours? I don't even want to talk about it. I will say I'm so disappointed, it's beyond belief. Once again, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but once again, I had such high hopes for a really solid game in Diablo 4. Why I keep letting myself get fooled over and over and over again has to be one of my life's greatest mysteries!… Expand
  25. azstowe
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    I have never seen a company so out of touch with their players. They are so focused on making you play longer to boost their metrics that they forget to make the game fun.
  26. Nupak
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good game,very nice company,very happy playing experience，Unparalleled update, consider players beyond imagination，If you don't play, you will be sorry for such a good company，The most important thing is that the camel can make a sound， so sweet.… Expand
  27. kencowu
    Aug 9, 2023
    0
    Rogue totally destroyed after 1.1.1 patch.
    They never fixed the real issues that should be fixed.
  28. HowlingRengar
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
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  29. Oakley77
    Jul 23, 2023
    1
    The game has excellent potential to entertain players, good graphics and lore but quality of life of the player and fun are the last thoughts of the developers. But it is possible that in the 2023 Do we need to beg for more space in the inventory? But it is possible that to direct people to the grift...... Um night are dungeon you have to nerf everything else and make it inaccessible orThe game has excellent potential to entertain players, good graphics and lore but quality of life of the player and fun are the last thoughts of the developers. But it is possible that in the 2023 Do we need to beg for more space in the inventory? But it is possible that to direct people to the grift...... Um night are dungeon you have to nerf everything else and make it inaccessible or useless? (1.1.0) Jay Wilson lasted 10 months at the direction of diablo 3 these if They continue like this they will last 6 Months. Blizzard wake up we are no longer in 2012 update or sell the brand to those who know how to do better!… Expand
  30. timcheang
    Aug 5, 2023
    0
    Cannot finish the side quest fury against fate in diablo 4 PC verison! The game has bug.
  31. max35546
    Aug 8, 2023
    0
    完全無法理解設計師的想法，1100等候完全沒動力繼續下去，遊戲沒內容
  32. honey3750
    Aug 9, 2023
    0
    暗黑系列的遊戲 ，首當讓玩家體驗是不錯的體感不錯，後面玩家發現有較強勢的流派並大多玩家在遊玩體驗已成形至後期，暴雪設計師從玩家體驗的樂趣消改至體驗0分，尤其是我是俠盜玩家 這次毒流派改成這樣 是要讓玩家去吃屎嗎 根本沒有體驗，體驗極差!!
  33. SLBrest
    Jun 11, 2023
    3
    Не понимаю почему критики все довольны. унылое говно. Все видео обзоры кричат о возвращение серии, а по мне так хуже некуда. Скукота. Чем всегда Диабло был великолепен т.к идешь по сюжету и с сюжетом возрастает уровень монстров, процедурной генерацией уровней каждый раз все новое. Тут все однотипное. скучное. Они планируют еще два платных дополнения (ну еще бы не будь то это блитззард), ноНе понимаю почему критики все довольны. унылое говно. Все видео обзоры кричат о возвращение серии, а по мне так хуже некуда. Скукота. Чем всегда Диабло был великолепен т.к идешь по сюжету и с сюжетом возрастает уровень монстров, процедурной генерацией уровней каждый раз все новое. Тут все однотипное. скучное. Они планируют еще два платных дополнения (ну еще бы не будь то это блитззард), но я их точно не куплю. Лучше поиграю Diablo II: Resurrected.

    И предсказываю. После Diablo 4, Diablo 5 будет MMO.

    P.S. Про лаги с серверами упоминать не буду это терпимо.    … Expand
  34. origam
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    It's terrible. It inherited the shortcomings of Diablo 3, even though it is 2023. And I can't shake the feeling that the game is unfinished. This game completely destroyed the Diablo series.
  35. imhere99
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    Everything has already been said in the comments.
    Diablo 4 is a shame.
    Blizbiz cannot develop a video game properly.
    Fake multi accounts with +10.
  36. LEEYEONHO
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    **** This is a game that my mom cursed at.
    This is the game my grandma cursed at.
  37. tony12181
    Jun 10, 2023
    3
    畫面不錯，但遊戲內容廢到笑，手感超級便秘，完全看不到POE的車尾燈
  38. warpZzone
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 va rapidement s'effondrer et retourné dans le néant.
    Une bouse de plus !
  39. IPlayIntoGames
    Jun 14, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's a hard recommend for the game. The classes feel weak until you hit lvl 50 and you will probably want to play the same sorcerer or rogue classes everyone picks because they're the 2 cool classes everyone say how good they are for early and endgame. The story took about 16 hours to complete but about 2 hours of it was actually good content, act 1 to 3 is forgettable, nothing splendid apart from the 3 headed dog boss, the only interesting mechanic it had was running away to a different zone every chunk of health it lost. After act 3, pathetic story telling and dramatic tropes that weren't necessary at all, like that girl, yes lemme open that door thats simply locked and that we could easily bust open with our power, oh-no she got stabbed in the hand or arm wtv by a drowned or wtv its called, gotta cut the arm off so that the "poison" doesn't spread. Many more uninteresting and useless action taken by her or other NPCs. Like c'mon, who's really gonna do that / say that.

    One thing I absolutely hated about the game, the networking. Making the game an online only experience is the worst decision. I live in Australia and the internet access here isn't that great. Even playing solo I suffer from rubber-banding and attacks hitting me even if I'm not in an AOE zone. Anyways, most of the game, unless you have friends, is going to be played SOLO. MSQ or dungeons alike will be played SOLO. Lagging in a SOLO instanced dungeon left me dumbfounded.

    no crafting apart from potions, vendors sell their items way too high (about 85% of my gold for 1 piece of gear which offers barely any upgrade over my current one and I could easily find an even better drop from a chest or an enemy)

    Poor optimization from the game, me and my friends, who have beefy PCs, suffer from freezes, disconnections, crashes, broken cutscenes ( shows the floor, had to stream the cutscene on discord ) and visual physics glitches ( fresh out of gary's mod )

    I could understand giving the mounts after act 3 as it makes you explore the map. but act 3 ends in a low level zone and you visited about maybe 35% of the whole map. (Again elongating the game, long but thin in substance)

    Final zone, I somewhat liked it. HELL was beautifully made and pretty challenging. Ok twists from Lilith and cutscenes are fabulous. The cheap part is the nightmare zone, simply recycling old bosses we fought but weaker was kind of disappointing.

    Tldr : dont waste 100$ aud (70$ usd) for this **** just play diablo 3 which is a much more enjoyable experience altogether.    … Expand
  40. Morganer
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    It looks not like Diablo, the gameplay, and mechanics are boring, and not many mobs empty open world 0 out of 10
  41. andyman30
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    The memory leaks are so bad that I have to toggle the settings from ultra to medium every 15 minutes or the game crashes. Not a very ideal way to play the game, I can't believe Blizzard didn't find this before final release.
  42. DHarland
    Jun 11, 2023
    1
    Avoid at all costs, the developers will try to nickel and dime you out of every cent to enjoy the game, which seems repetitive. I uninstalled and tried to get a refund.
  43. Paulyd97
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    Seriously stay away from this game. Awful optimization, awful campaign, awful skill options, awful text to speech, awful monetization, awful company. sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
  44. Pepesilvia570
    Jun 13, 2023
    4
    "Look how they massacred my boy." As a huge fan of the original series D1 and D2 this new entry is the series is more along the lines of the Jay Wilson vision of **** david brevik, that loser" with some darker aesthetics. At it's core is a fun action romp with extra emphasis on action and much less on RPG. Similar to D3 if you want to progress in hardcore you will have to choose one of the"Look how they massacred my boy." As a huge fan of the original series D1 and D2 this new entry is the series is more along the lines of the Jay Wilson vision of **** david brevik, that loser" with some darker aesthetics. At it's core is a fun action romp with extra emphasis on action and much less on RPG. Similar to D3 if you want to progress in hardcore you will have to choose one of the 3 viable builds to tackle end game content and nightmare sigils. Contrived builds which leave little to the users imagination with a very simplified tree and paragon points that simply just add raw power. Itemization is unimaginative as they are simply just skill sticks based around item power. All builds revolve around a "basic" skill that generates resources for your "Core" skills. It's very dumbed down. Once you reach around level 80-84 you start to notice the grind for the next level breakpoint. It's all just a matter of finding the right combination of +% damage and attributes that are meta for your character.
    Overall, a very mid ARPG and will be soon forgotten and only played as a game in between seasons of PoE2, Last Epoch and D2R.    … Expand
  45. Zeusbot48
    Jun 30, 2023
    4
    Diablo 4 has had a lot of time spent polishing the gameplay and it shows.
    There are very few bugs, and the graphics are beautiful.
    Why 4/10 then? Two reasons: if you are going to have an always online game, you need stable servers. I'm not just talking about the problems around launch when the servers are getting slammed. It has been a couple of weeks now and the servers are still laggy    Diablo 4 has had a lot of time spent polishing the gameplay and it shows.
    There are very few bugs, and the graphics are beautiful.
    Why 4/10 then?
    Two reasons: if you are going to have an always online game, you need stable servers. I'm not just talking about the problems around launch when the servers are getting slammed. It has been a couple of weeks now and the servers are still laggy and occaisionally crash. This is making it hard to enjoy the game.

    The other reason is the bizarre zoomed in feel of the game. It feels like I'm looking at it through a telescope. I keep constantly trying to scroll my mouse wheel to zoom out. Enemies attack you from off screen and the range of your own abilities is often off screen. I can't fathom why they have done this, maybe performance on consoles? However these two issues combined are seriously affecting my enjoyment of the game, which is a huge shame as there is a lot to love on the gameplay side.    … Expand
  46. MystiKasT
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Campaign is easy, but fun the first playthrough. However, thats the end of the fun. There's no endgame, no loot chasing, no trading, etc. It might as well be a single player campaign game. More corporate trash from a failing blizzard. The old days of blizzard are gone. RIP Blizz North
  47. naalz
    Jun 12, 2023
    0
    Alot of fake account has been made to up the score on this game. Diablo 4 is not a good game at all.
    Itemization is bad, storyline is mediocre, questing is tedius and repetetive. UI and inventory management is horrible. You can't even kill Diablo anymore! Spend your money elsewhere, or go play lost ark or poe for free!
  48. Rageoverrun
    Jun 11, 2023
    3
    Cinematics team deserves so much better. Everything in regards to the cinematics was top tier content and extremely enjoyable. The game, however, was bland, uninspired, and not what we all waited to have ready to play. They thought they could take Diablo Immortal, but a dark, scary coat of paint on it, and call it Diablo 4. Thoroughly disappointed.
  49. KSVanek
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    Blizzard took absolutely no risks with this game.
    This isn't Diablo4, it's Diablo3.5
  50. Jimbozinya
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    "World of Diablocraft Online" that's how it feels and plays. This is not a true Diablo. They took Diablo lore and slapped it on a MMO pretending to be an ARPG. I give it a solid 6/10 for the artwork, graphics, story and sound. Other than that, it is 2/10. It is so disappointing to play as a Diablo fan of 1, 2, and 3.

    I got my wife into D3 a few years ago and she liked it alot, we were    "World of Diablocraft Online" that's how it feels and plays. This is not a true Diablo. They took Diablo lore and slapped it on a MMO pretending to be an ARPG. I give it a solid 6/10 for the artwork, graphics, story and sound. Other than that, it is 2/10. It is so disappointing to play as a Diablo fan of 1, 2, and 3.

    I got my wife into D3 a few years ago and she liked it alot, we were able to run the same classes and share any loot that dropped while we were both present... not anymore. Can't trade any legendary for any reason. So us sharing any drops that the other may need cannot be done. She tried D4 and can't stand it, and I don't blame her.

    Here are some cons that is what I'm basing my rating on:

    - Monetization (Extremely over priced cosmetics and scam season passes)
    - Bosses aren't hard, just very long time consuming damage sponges
    - Way too many MMO aspects for a true Diablo game
    - Level scaling
    - Lack of build diversity that's actually worth playing
    - No single player option at all. Forced to be in a world with other players.
    - Repetitive bosses/dungeons
    - Serious balance issues
    - Lack of legendary diversity
    - Horses are needed to travel on an unnecessarily huge obstacle course map with literal monster road blocks
    - No map overlay
    - Slow paced    … Expand
  51. IamBeanhead
    Jun 11, 2023
    4
    The people giving the game a 0 or 1 don’t know what an actual 0 or 1 rated game is. Game is no where near that bad. You may not like it but that doesn’t make it bad. Could the game use some better itemization? Yeah. Could it use some more enemy variety? Sure. Could the resource system be better? Definitely. That doesn’t make the game a bad game. It’s a good start and will continue to getThe people giving the game a 0 or 1 don’t know what an actual 0 or 1 rated game is. Game is no where near that bad. You may not like it but that doesn’t make it bad. Could the game use some better itemization? Yeah. Could it use some more enemy variety? Sure. Could the resource system be better? Definitely. That doesn’t make the game a bad game. It’s a good start and will continue to get updates and improve on these things. What’s here is a very solid game. Also the people complaining about mtx in the game is dumb. Just don’t buy them. It’s only cosmetic and doesn’t matter. The game needs recurring revenue if it’s going to be a live service so it doesn’t bother me.… Expand
  52. Debussy
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    Level 1 to 50 is too slow and difficult because we don't have access to the tools that open up in world tier 3
  53. lunchbachs
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    This plays like a generic mmo with a boring unskippable story duct taped on top of it. The boldest thing this game does is call itself "Diablo." Paying off reviewers and influencers can only get you so far.
  54. ForJusticee
    Jun 13, 2023
    0
    Motivation for so called ""Diablo"" 4 (""Diablo"" 3.2) = Greedy ActiBlizzard wanna milk the 10/10 children with Price+Shop+BattlePass+Expansions+......+........+........+.........to INFINITY!!!

    Motivation for DIABLO+DIABLO2 = Just the PURE LOVE for Games and the RPG-GENRE.
  55. kennel_
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    The game just isn't worth its price and name. In fact this game is just a reskin of D3 with elements of freemium online mmorpgs/mobile rpgs. I can not believe it took more than 10 years to reskin D3 and add the most hated freemium game mechanics into it.
    In short there is no place for strategy and fun: everything is linear, precalculated and adapts to your character.
    PROS: - decent    The game just isn't worth its price and name. In fact this game is just a reskin of D3 with elements of freemium online mmorpgs/mobile rpgs. I can not believe it took more than 10 years to reskin D3 and add the most hated freemium game mechanics into it.
    In short there is no place for strategy and fun: everything is linear, precalculated and adapts to your character.

    PROS:
    - decent visuals (not as good for a 2023 AAA title though);
    - decent character view customization;
    - amusing boss-fight mechanics;
    CONS:
    - drop and difficulty adaptation to your character;
    - no character stats system;
    - linear corridor-ish levels;
    - no character development strategy is needed: you can redistribute skills anytime/anywhere;
    - freemium games-like primitive quests - kill 20 bats, collect 10 rat tails etc;
    - no differences between classes except necromancer;
    - replaced an old-school cell-based inventory with a mainstream casual item-based one;
    - world adaptation is so absurd that every player on a level sees mobs level different (your character level + 2);
    - mostly the only difference between mob types is just how they look. Variety is fake;    … Expand
  56. Whiterin
    Jun 15, 2023
    4
    I have been a big fan of the Diablo series since the very first game. I've spent more time playing Diablo games than any other game. Diablo 4 is the most expensive game I've ever bought by a pretty fair margin. I had high hopes for it, thinking they may have learned from their mistakes with 3. Unfortunately Diablo 4 is a disappointment. So many choices they made in gameplay aspects justI have been a big fan of the Diablo series since the very first game. I've spent more time playing Diablo games than any other game. Diablo 4 is the most expensive game I've ever bought by a pretty fair margin. I had high hopes for it, thinking they may have learned from their mistakes with 3. Unfortunately Diablo 4 is a disappointment. So many choices they made in gameplay aspects just make little sense to me. The performance of the game is all over the place. The game runs at a pretty solid 144 fps, but yet the cutscenes are choppy and laggy? Really?

    The game, over all, is "okay". If this was some standalone new franchise that would be fine, but I was expecting more than just "Okay" from Blizzard. I'm disappointed they kept the D3 style combat system and I'm not a huge fan of skill tree. I really wish they would have gone a different direction with the itemization in the game too, maybe taken a hint from how popular D2R was? Guess not...

    I have complaints about other game mechanics and choices, but I could have looked past pretty much all of it if the story was amazing like I've come to expect from Diablo. Unfortunately it just isn't. In fact, it's probably the worst part of the game. The story, in my opinion, is garbage. Unacceptably weak and flat for a Diablo game. Even with all the issues I had with D3 when it launched, at least it had a good story. I've seen lots of people praise D4's story, and it's absurd. D4 makes a mockery of the story, and characters, that has been built up over the previous 3 games. It just throws all the previous lore away, hand waves, or just downright ignores so many things to try make and this joke of a plot make any semblance of sense at all.

    ALL the mechanic and gameplay issues could pretty easily be fixed, and honestly might be, but the story? I doubt they're going to change that... It seems very obvious to me that they really didn't care much at all about the game past it being one more thing to make a few $$. In the past, Blizzard was probably one of my most enjoyed game studios, but now I'm not sure I'll ever bother buying something from them again. I'm still playing the game, hoping that I'll find SOMETHING there to make the cost worth it, but I definitely regret paying the price to play this.    … Expand
  57. Ktzzho
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Edit: After the big patch before the start of the next season... We can say that the developer don't know their own game. Sadly it get worse and worse. Instead of content or balancing, they artificially increase the playtime.

    It is a Hack and Slay RPG and done pretty well. The Chase for better loot is what keep one's motivated. Except, at some point, you barely find new good stuff. Most    Edit: After the big patch before the start of the next season... We can say that the developer don't know their own game. Sadly it get worse and worse. Instead of content or balancing, they artificially increase the playtime.

    It is a Hack and Slay RPG and done pretty well. The Chase for better loot is what keep one's motivated. Except, at some point, you barely find new good stuff. Most affixes are bad, and you just wait for someone without useless enchants on it....

    Drawbacks are:
    -Story is boring as hell, but honestly I didn't expect something else.
    -Balancing. The disparity between different Skills and builds is huge. Which makes variety (@higher difficulties) very limited...
    -Server. I don't know who had this Idea. The Servers are terrible. Sometimes you need a lot of Time just to log into the game, at prime times the game can be laggy as hell. It's 2023 ffs.
    -Missing Quality of Life features. Again it's 2023 and you have a small inventory, no extra bag for gems etc etc...
    -Microtransactions... still hate them in full price games
    -Artificial extend the playtime. For example, finding all Lilith Statues. Does anybody think that it is fun to run around the world and click statues? Or doing all the Side Quest to get renown? Who ever develop this game, never played a ARPG itself.

    If I could go back in time, I would not buy it again. It's not exactly bad, just feel non point.    … Expand
  58. mattyvicious
    Jun 11, 2023
    1
    First act is great, then the game goes downhill fast. gets good again act 6. No sense of progression feels rewarding, enemy scaling punishes you for leveling up by matching you so you never feel strong. End game is a boring grind of the same few things to do over and over and over again. classes nerfed into the ground.
  59. PickleNCP
    Jun 14, 2023
    0
    It feels like the designers who built the game and the designers who will adjust the game after launch are totally different groups of people. The game was full of fun at the beginning, but it didn't last long.
    So who is the real Mr. AntiFun, Blizzard?
  60. Stigmat
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    For a major company that took so much time...where is the innovation? Money prevails ts clear to me now... Sad repetitive gameplay...I have played this game hundreds of times in the last 20 years. To be honest it's still kinda addictive...but for how long? Let's see if the end game is worth something.
  61. ColdComfort
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    Another completely unsurprising Live Services failure. $100 game that you can't play, because there aren't enough servers, to play a single-player experience game.

    Doesn't matter if you've made a great game if it can't be played.
  62. Thorden
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    I am not joking. This titel made me stop playing D 1 and D 2. Mediocre devs who know they dont have to deliver because of the name and all these braindead drones here giving D 4 their money and a 10/10. Ridiculous.
  63. bablaguy
    Jun 8, 2023
    1
    I am a huge fan of D1, D2 and D3, having hundreds of hours in the latter. Basically it was obvious that Blizzard wasn't going to take any risks with this game, every bit of info they'd dropped after the initial announcement screamed that they are going to make the same ugly decisions all over again. And it is basically what we got. It is the same vanilla pre-RoS D3 with the new graphicsI am a huge fan of D1, D2 and D3, having hundreds of hours in the latter. Basically it was obvious that Blizzard wasn't going to take any risks with this game, every bit of info they'd dropped after the initial announcement screamed that they are going to make the same ugly decisions all over again. And it is basically what we got. It is the same vanilla pre-RoS D3 with the new graphics and the same systems they renamed and repacked to different containers. Same very casual, very clean, very controlable (by blizzard) way of playing the game with nothing of interest for your average player, let alone hardcore fans of the genre. Runes system is your "new" skill tree. Kanai cube is your new aspect thing. Your class-sets are paragon boards now. Same D3 1.0 skill system: generators, spenders. Your vanilla D3 inferno is the new world tier 4.

    The story is retconned and is really nothing special despite really being darker.
    The graphics are mostly mediocre by today's standarts. The game engine really lacks contrast and sharpness, the picture is just blend and gray. The art style is superb though. Designers, artist, modelers outdid themselvels once again. The cinametics are fire. The audio-design is good.
    The monetisation and policies are pure cancer.
    The endgame is non-existant. Same with the replayability.
    The game is just boring. It doesn't demand any brain activity from you from second one. Eventually it will become D3, meaning every season you start from scratch following some easy guide from some dude, never required to make any decision for yourself. You just grab a list of items from the floor, do some obvious mumbo jumbo and you're done.
    People will forget about D4 very very soon. There's just not enough stuff to experiment on there. And there's no signs that is about to change, on the contrary.

    Overall.
    As a single-player story game 710.
    As an online multi-player service game 010.
    Oh, and let's substract some points for the beyond good and evil greed behind the monetisation plan.
    The final score is 110. And honestly I am being generous. Let's not forget I've been waiting for this game for 10 years. And that is what I've got.    … Expand
  64. Gerden
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    Disappointing. Poor story, poor ending, poor dialogue. Very unbalanced and unfunny world scale, useless item power. Video looks worst than Diablo Immortal, music is quitet. 10 Mobs on whole word? Really Hack and Slash game had 10 mobs on whole loc? More XD than game
  65. ramilsazan
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    Они сделали потрясающую графику, красивые локации, но игра после 50 уровня становится такой скучной, во первых нет уникальных боссов в подземельях. 2. боссы это просто модели побольше простых мобов. 3. как на счет придумать новую механику прохождения подземелий, а не одну из трех, принести 2 ключа, выбить 2 ключа или убить всех мобов. 4. лагает лошадь. 5. В других сериях диабло былоОни сделали потрясающую графику, красивые локации, но игра после 50 уровня становится такой скучной, во первых нет уникальных боссов в подземельях. 2. боссы это просто модели побольше простых мобов. 3. как на счет придумать новую механику прохождения подземелий, а не одну из трех, принести 2 ключа, выбить 2 ключа или убить всех мобов. 4. лагает лошадь. 5. В других сериях диабло было намного больше билдов. 6. Игра слишком дорогая. 7. Игру сильно переоценили. 8. Нет смысла улучшать снаряжение, достаточно просто посмотреть силу предмета. 9. Рпг это как конструктор (для меня), как пластилин (для меня), в д4 же ты как будто лепишь персонажа из одно и того же куска говна, неважно как ты слепил, мобы все равно адаптируются, парагон даже на третьей ветке ничего вам не даст, просто не качайте его и вы не увидите разницы.
    Это даже не Диабло 3.5 это Диабло Иммортал 2 (тут должна быть картинка "вот это поворот")    … Expand
  66. Hyper0404
    Jun 16, 2023
    4
    The game looks really good, the story telling was great. I really enjoyed the campaign.
    BUT AFTER....
    I don't thing that the Lilith statue collecting can be called as a content. it took me nearly 2 hours / zone to collect them. Honestly i think if anyone would care about the game they would place them at the end of each dungeon so at least there would be a reason to go through each    The game looks really good, the story telling was great. I really enjoyed the campaign.
    BUT AFTER....
    I don't thing that the Lilith statue collecting can be called as a content. it took me nearly 2 hours / zone to collect them. Honestly i think if anyone would care about the game they would place them at the end of each dungeon so at least there would be a reason to go through each dungeon. But at this point i guess none of you beated every dungeon. not even half of them. There is absolutly no reason to play 85% of the dungeons without sigils if you play just 1 character.

    About the mount...
    I understand that riding in the openworld is for making each of the a**holes amazed by the visuals of the game. however. I found myself really annoyed after i had to ride 1-2 minutes (bonus: loading screen) to reach every sigil dungeon i want to finish. For a player who plays the game minimum for a year and if you play at least 10 dungeon a day we talking about 100 hour of pointless riding. This is where i miss the good old Diablo 3 option where you can go right from the town into your dungeon. Ofcourse not talking about the horse cooldowns and all the pointless blockades on the road boosting up your time in the pointless ride. Also the horse handling can be felt exactly it was never designed for PC but it works "SO ITS OKAY FOR THEM"

    Lagg issue...
    Some people moaning about the game for being "FORCED ONLINE" and experiencing lagg issues.
    ofcource these guys never understood and never will that how game engines works. This is not server issue. not internet connection issue. Lets call it a "game issue" since objects and terrain in a distance loading while you travelling and getting closer. A single player option doesn't going to solve your problems. You just can't deal with poorly optimalized early access games because that how i can call Diablo 4.

    Overall the game is really good until you level up. And becomes boring super quick after the campaign end. Blizzard should understand that grinding dungeons is not an option to keep players busy with their game. I understand they have to make people spend much time as possible in the game because thats the profit. Its the same what Path of Exile does. but in Diablo its pain in the a** without content. Players need much more interesting things to do or they will go into the next game asap.

    Scaling...
    The strenght of mobs on scale is insane. the higher your level, the weaker you are. i have leveled 3 characters up to 70 until i accepted that the characters are okay. but its the game f*cks you.

    in my opinion Blizzard should figure out how to make the game enjoyable at max level because I dont even have a reason to level up for... What jobs to do when im above at least level 90? Just beating the sh*t out of higher level mobs? Even 3-5 player dungeons would fix this problems with world bosses on the end.

    My biggest disappointment was the necromancer. I had big hopes about having an amazing skeleton army as body guards with MAXIMUM amplifier to cast. But in this game the minions are weak af. And you are their body guard. Their damage is low. their health is low. They don't give a sh*t about mobs until you ain't got attacked. And theres a legendary what gives increased damage to minions but only after they are alive for at least 10 sec. So literaly this legendary bonus is completely useless on Act end bosses with one hiting your minions. In dungeons you have to heal them with skeletal priest to keep them alive. while the big damage dealer is YOU with bone spear... Dealing more DPS than all your minions together.
    AND WHERE'S THE PALADIN???

    On the current state of this early access game, spending days with it i can't give more than a 4 or 5
    It needs another 4 years to be playable.    … Expand
  67. BzFkNoob
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
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  68. vipabcde
    Aug 8, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** you blizzard！！！！！ son of **** are my son！！！ you are a **** dog！！！… Expand
  69. jackSSS
    Aug 8, 2023
    1
    就是一個設計垃圾的遊戲，不值得花錢買，售價還比其他3A遊戲貴，他們哪來的自信
  70. Salamatiel
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    Depois da atulização ficou uma merda, tudo nerfado
    Armaduras, armas, habilidades, ataque, defesa, mosntros, XP, o PATH mais bosta que eu já vi !!!!!!!
  71. Code3257
    Jul 25, 2023
    4
    I really like season 1 vs preseason. Me and my boyfriend play it. After learning how stats compound the 1% for 1second make a lot more sense and feel bigger. It is an alright game compared to what's out there for multiplayer. It could be better, but it is new vs POE and all that. I wish there was more bosses and fun things to prepare for instead of working on tiny things that barelyI really like season 1 vs preseason. Me and my boyfriend play it. After learning how stats compound the 1% for 1second make a lot more sense and feel bigger. It is an alright game compared to what's out there for multiplayer. It could be better, but it is new vs POE and all that. I wish there was more bosses and fun things to prepare for instead of working on tiny things that barely matter. It needs more bosses that drop more interesting things, but other than that it is ok. More color palates for your character are also needed though. They're very few games that are fun for two people to play together couch coop that are as good as this.… Expand
  72. Jaedenz
    Jul 27, 2023
    3
    Why Nerf all the fun ?? Why do we have to do renown again ? Why there is not a loot filter in this "arpg" ?
  73. capitarus
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    Хз, я люблю эту серию. Красивые декорации. Художникам 10/10. История….. ну такое…6/10. Ожидаемо. Фризы!! Постоянно. Лаги. Зависания. Вылеты. И блин - вы в очереди ждите 10 минут??? Да пошли вы далеко и надолго….
  74. Hiker
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    It's Diablo 3 with better graphics. The gameplay is extremely repetitive and the grind to level 100 is also extreme. The cash shop is a complete and total ripoff, but you don't have to use it.

    The biggest issue is the daily network issues that prevent you from playing. They are constant and Blizzard's communication is terrible. The game is NOT PLAYABLE on a daily basis due to constant    It's Diablo 3 with better graphics. The gameplay is extremely repetitive and the grind to level 100 is also extreme. The cash shop is a complete and total ripoff, but you don't have to use it.

    The biggest issue is the daily network issues that prevent you from playing. They are constant and Blizzard's communication is terrible. The game is NOT PLAYABLE on a daily basis due to constant network issues.

    If you are going to buy the game you should wait to see if they actually fix the networking or you'll just be buying a game that you cannot play.    … Expand
  75. JDread
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    Game plays smooth, and looks nice, but that's about it. There is no depth or real meaningful itemization.

    Graphics 8/10
    Itemization 4/10
    Gameplay 7/10
    Build Diversity 4/10
    Story 4/10
    End-game 3/10
  76. CyclePlus
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Campaign is very good but that's about it. Endgame relies on 3 systems which are all tedious, clunky and incoherent (maps with low density mobs and fetch quests, timed events.) Blizzard also tried to add MMO aspects to the game but failed to include anyway to socialize with players including a party finder for some reason. Build complexity is trivial, once you play for a few hours youCampaign is very good but that's about it. Endgame relies on 3 systems which are all tedious, clunky and incoherent (maps with low density mobs and fetch quests, timed events.) Blizzard also tried to add MMO aspects to the game but failed to include anyway to socialize with players including a party finder for some reason. Build complexity is trivial, once you play for a few hours you quickly realize the skill tree and paragon system are about as basic as it gets and leaves you with few options for a powerful build due to level scaling. UI is also bad, no search functions in your stash tabs, skill tree takes up way too much space on your screen.

    I do think this game will be good in a couple years just like how ROS was with Vanilla D3 but unless Blizz can perform a miracle this game will be on life support in a few months.    … Expand
  77. WarlordBK
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
    The boss fights in this game are absolutely pathetic, the bosses are weaker than trash mobs in the literal same dungeon.
    Overall game difficulty is also a pathetic joke past level 30
    Item drop rates and amount are way too high making finding new items uninteresting, Especially since items scale to some weird item level based on your level. Damage Numbers are through the roof    The boss fights in this game are absolutely pathetic, the bosses are weaker than trash mobs in the literal same dungeon.
    Overall game difficulty is also a pathetic joke past level 30
    Item drop rates and amount are way too high making finding new items uninteresting,
    Especially since items scale to some weird item level based on your level.

    Damage Numbers are through the roof
    Dungeons are basically guided narrow passages with no exploration
    The world map is shown as a bunch of paths leaving no mystery for exploring the open world, you always know exactly where to go.

    Story telling was great but many parts of the story were terrible, from comedic lines whilst fighting for our lives in hell, laughing at witty neyrelle comments outside a dungeon covered in blood and dead people lying around - theres a time and place for humour.

    Itemization is pretty damn terrible, not alot of depth in build customization "play your way" and "endless build possibilities" are blatant lies.

    There are many positives about diablo 4 and the game has great potential if they make certain changes.    … Expand
  78. xmaister
    Jun 11, 2023
    4
    The game is fine, but the servers are a pain. It freezes every now and then, today I've been trying to play all morning and it's impossible. If someone wants to buy it I would recommend to wait until they fix this, because it is unplayable.
  79. Skrambled
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 is an absolute masterpiece. The game has excellent story delivery with top-shelf voice acting and writing. The visuals are stunning and the best ever seen in the genre. The combat is exciting with endless customization and the performance is flawless with near-zero bugs
  80. ReviewTimez
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    It seems that not only is Blizzard paying for journalist to give high ranking and favorable reviews, but they are also creating accounts to upvote it on meta-critic. Diablo IV lacks features, trading, and an assortment of other things, i.e. Overlay Map. In my opinion it's the worst of the series, little to no innovation, copy pasta from D3/Immortal with a Warcraft open map. Almost all ofIt seems that not only is Blizzard paying for journalist to give high ranking and favorable reviews, but they are also creating accounts to upvote it on meta-critic. Diablo IV lacks features, trading, and an assortment of other things, i.e. Overlay Map. In my opinion it's the worst of the series, little to no innovation, copy pasta from D3/Immortal with a Warcraft open map. Almost all of the 10/10 reviews are not authentic here, so that's why I am giving it a zero to offset, instead of what I believe it is which is Diablo 4 / 10. Blizzard is a terrible game company these days, all they did was mass market this game and spent millions doing so, as for the product that seems forgotten about, it's bad, do not waste your time purchasing this, you're only encouraging Blizzard to produce mediocre content and pay journalists and review bombers to up vote it, disgusting to it's core!!… Expand
  81. Scarlsby
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    At times, Diablo 4 feels like a masterpiece. The cinematics are gorgeous. The gameplay is fun. The story is captivating. I like the key passives as they pretty clearly can define builds.

    Other times, Diablo 4 feels like a mess. Here is my laundry list of complaints... Paid early access is not something I want to support. $70 price tag is too high for a digital game. $70 games should not    At times, Diablo 4 feels like a masterpiece. The cinematics are gorgeous. The gameplay is fun. The story is captivating. I like the key passives as they pretty clearly can define builds.

    Other times, Diablo 4 feels like a mess. Here is my laundry list of complaints... Paid early access is not something I want to support. $70 price tag is too high for a digital game. $70 games should not have in-game shops, microtransactions or a battle pass. Always online functionally feels really bad when there are frequent server issues. Level scaling makes the game feel like I'm always at the exact same power level. Tying world tier 3 to finishing the campaign means that doing anything except the main storyline means you're playing the game wrong. The game never feels hard. I'm playing with friends but it feels like I'm not incentivized to actually play with them. The paragon system feels way too confusing to try to optimize. It almost always feels like I'm guessing when trying to decide if a piece of gear is an upgrade. Changing specs feels like a chore. Ultimate abilities often feel too weak for their long cooldowns timers. It feels wrong that you can poison rocks or cause skeletons to bleed. Gems take up too much bag space.

    I'm currently level 57. Maybe I'll get to level 100, or more likely I'll lose interest over the next week or two and stop.

    Update: I got to level 81. Patch 1.1 feels like a slap in the face. No QOL improvements. Massive nerfs to dps, survivability, xp gain, self healing, cdr, gear affixes, helltides, and more. I uninstalled and gave up my season 1 plans because I can’t support a game or company that thinks this is okay. Changing my previous rating of 5/10 to 2/10.    … Expand
  82. Justin34
    Aug 15, 2023
    3
    A really boring arpg. Much more better games out there. Really boring and repetitive open world, bad itemisation, crappy build performances.
  83. Murphyslaw
    Jun 9, 2023
    3
    Game play is just OK at the moment. Not terrible, but it can get a bit boring fairly quickly. Builder/spender issues drag down the leveling experience. Not every class feels as snappy or fun out of the gate which is a shame. The content and meat of the game feels a tad lacking, not everything feels quite viable end game yet, almost as if content has been held back for future seasons, asGame play is just OK at the moment. Not terrible, but it can get a bit boring fairly quickly. Builder/spender issues drag down the leveling experience. Not every class feels as snappy or fun out of the gate which is a shame. The content and meat of the game feels a tad lacking, not everything feels quite viable end game yet, almost as if content has been held back for future seasons, as opposed to future seasons adding upon an already packed game. A lot of what you are pursuing in terms of items feels very linear, not a lot of options for diversity. Just a mid tier hack and slash game all things considered at the moment.

    Graphics are great in the cinematics, graphics in game are mostly pretty good, with a few very odd exceptions of something standing out for looking VERY rough around the edges, certain spells and the like. Voice acting is good. Music is OK. Nothing like Diablo 1 or 2, but it's not terrible. The story is good. Not great, again it feels like we are expecting more in future seasons, but its alright. Far better than D3.

    The price alongside the micro transactions is NOT OK. Charging 70$ and claiming you need to do this to keep up with today's inflation THEN adding in cosmetics at 25 dollars a pop is hogwash to put it as politely as I care to at this moment. Charge 70 and severely reduce the in game purchases prices permanently. By a lot. Also get rid of fomo, and in game currency. Absolute predatory garbage and whoever keeps insisting these should go into games needs some damming backlash from the audience AND the game developers themselves. It only serves to make them look bad and add more stress to their plate. I just find this behavior flat out disgusting.

    TL;DR - Mediocre live service game. Leave it on the table until future seasons come out, things might be more balanced/there might be more meat to the game play and end game by then. Don't reward their micro transaction behavior.

    Edit after more play time* Rated this game originally as a 5 for their efforts, but now down to a 3. I am genuinely bored and unhappy with my purchase. End game just feels like WoW dailies. Boring and tedious. I wanna run fun gauntlets to kill memorable bosses for epic loot. Not generic mob whats his face in generic dungeon. All while being forced to play a horrible builder spender build with no breaks in the monotony. I genuinely want my money back.    … Expand
  84. MrJPrime
    Jun 9, 2023
    0
    The game is a stuttering mess on 2 of my 3 pcs. That plus the always online requirements are big issues. I am in a place with spotty wifi so I can't play a game I paid for..... Kinda bs thus down to a 5
    The cosmetics are obscenely expensive like 25 bucks. With all that it's amazing at launch and will only get better.
    After the updates and all the bs I deserve a refund. Oh well instead    The game is a stuttering mess on 2 of my 3 pcs. That plus the always online requirements are big issues. I am in a place with spotty wifi so I can't play a game I paid for..... Kinda bs thus down to a 5
    The cosmetics are obscenely expensive like 25 bucks. With all that it's amazing at launch and will only get better.

    After the updates and all the bs I deserve a refund. Oh well instead your game gets a zero... Fix it...    … Expand
  85. Reviewer78
    Aug 19, 2023
    4
    Edit: Changing my review to a 4 out of 10, considering the state of the game and Blizzard's stance/actions or rather lack of actions.

    The early game, up until 50, along with the campaign/story, audio and visuals, cinematics are a solid 8 out of 10. However, when you start moving into tier 3 and past level 60, the game starts showing its flaws and it goes down to a 4 out of 10: -    Edit: Changing my review to a 4 out of 10, considering the state of the game and Blizzard's stance/actions or rather lack of actions.

    The early game, up until 50, along with the campaign/story, audio and visuals, cinematics are a solid 8 out of 10.

    However, when you start moving into tier 3 and past level 60, the game starts showing its flaws and it goes down to a 4 out of 10:
    - There are basically just a few dungeons, rehashed, reused, jost changed a bit, with the same 5 bosses reused in them.
    - Obnoxious enemy design, that have built in CC mechanics, a lot of the melee enemies have some form of ranged ability that does massive damage.
    - Dungeon affixes are overtuned, when you get to tier 4 it shows real bad.
    - Chained CC on your character by the enemies, environment and dungeon affixes, it's not uncommon to be CCed for 3-5 seconds in a row with no debuff or timer indicators.
    - Items suck, too many bloated item properties, 90% of them conditional, they could have been reduced to less than 20 meaningful ones.
    - You stop gaining effective power after level 70, mostly due to not finding better items and partly also to the underpowered paragon tree, however monsters gain power with each higher level they gain.
    - Extreme gold costs of enchanting items, you can easily lose more than 20 million gold in less than 10 clicks.
    - Horrible game design, look at the stash controversy (tfor who whon't research the topic - basically they can't add more stash tabs in the game, because every time you go into an area, your game client will load the inventories and stash tabs of all the players in that area/game, no matter if you interact/trade with them or not).
    - Toxic community, avoid the Battlenet Diablo 4 forums at all costs, evey criticisim or complaint is met with toxic trolling and defending broken mechanics, no matter how obvious the points made in the initial post.
    - Constant nerfing of every fun by Blizzard, along to timegating, long cast times on every action like picking up objectives/items in dungeons, rescuing prisoners, activating levers.

    If you're only in it for the story, then take your time, you will enjoy the game, play what class seems cool to you, try out all the skills you find interesting.

    Hoewever, if you plan on playing into the end game, be prepared to run into a wall.
    You might not run into it at 60, or even 70, but you'll get there.
    Despite Blizzard heavily advertising #playyourway, that is false advertising, only the most overpowered builds are viable into the end game (post level 80), your campaign build will get demolished in tier 4.

    It's painfully obvious by the silence from Blizzards end and all the controversies they caused with their videos uploaded to Youtube, their refusal of acknowledging and fixing major issues, and the fact that they already made a ton of money, that they will never fix the game, they'll pump out a mediocre season every 3 months, with some dumb mechanics, and they'll continue to nerf the game, for the sake of "balance".

    Diablo 4, a game held together by the massive contribution of the art, visual, audio and cinematics teams, but brought below ground by all the game/class/mechanics design teams and incompetent developers.

    I want to be proven wrong by Blizzard one day, but I know they don't have it in them anymore, they died 20 years ago.    … Expand
  86. battlefield4Me
    Jun 7, 2023
    0
    the only thing diabolic about this game is the p2w elements. welcome to microtransaction hell. RIP the good old days of gaming
  87. Udaff
    Sep 6, 2023
    0
    Total disaster. It's not worth a penny. Just say good-bye good old nerdy blizz.
  88. Dirtboy
    Jun 11, 2023
    3
    The game feels slow and generally unsatisfying to play. It's hard to keep up with all these major major changes the devs keep making basically every couple weeks. I'm exhausted. The game is making me exhausted.
  89. aaaskeptic
    Jul 19, 2023
    4
    Very very mid. Has potential if they scrap some of its core systems, like itemization (having to find the items with legendary aspects / uniques again and again, just with higher levels. And streamline some of the mods that actually don't make sense) and level scaling (which probably won't happen.)

    Story was meh, character builds are meh, not a lot of choice. Really bad endgame loop.    Very very mid. Has potential if they scrap some of its core systems, like itemization (having to find the items with legendary aspects / uniques again and again, just with higher levels. And streamline some of the mods that actually don't make sense) and level scaling (which probably won't happen.)

    Story was meh, character builds are meh, not a lot of choice. Really bad endgame loop.

    Plays great most of the time and is visually impressive.

    See other negative reviews, everything has been said already. I really like Diablo as a series, but I cannot fathom these 10/10 reviews. (Everything below 3/4 also. It's a decent game, but with so many flaws... But good potential.)    … Expand
  90. Keoman
    Jul 29, 2023
    3
    First of all, I've did not went trough all the aspects of the game, but at the first glance for me personally is a solid 10, there is room for improvement but time will resolve all the issues.
    I like the graphics, music and yes the cutscenes/cinematics from the game are the best.
    The gameplay feels really good, and the story is captivating. As for cons, I really do not have any, being I    First of all, I've did not went trough all the aspects of the game, but at the first glance for me personally is a solid 10, there is room for improvement but time will resolve all the issues.
    I like the graphics, music and yes the cutscenes/cinematics from the game are the best.
    The gameplay feels really good, and the story is captivating. As for cons, I really do not have any, being I fan of this game since D1, this a true Diablo experience from my point of view.
    Now I do not understand all the negative comments, indeed I cannot say that I have the same feeling as when I was playing D1 or D2 and this will never happen again in this life, because the true experiences of your lives remained printed in your childhood when you were first experimenting different things and that's why we remain bonded to the things that made us happy in our childhood. Face the truth, we are getting old. :)
    EDIT: After finishing most aspects of the game, I can say that this game is disappointing, I was hyped up at first but now I realize that this game does not satisfy me at all. I am sorry for the money paid for this game. Piracy is good for this kind of problems, we can all donate to pirates to help us see the game before buying it. It never happened to me to play a game and to think, man I just want to finish the story and put this game aside because I have other cool games to play. Story to short and I did not have fun in this game even for a moment. I will give a 3 for just trying. Path of exile is much more fun and free. This is my last purchase from Blizzard.    … Expand
  91. kenjiko
    Jun 13, 2023
    2
    Good game! Much better than diablo 3 or poe
    Graphics and story are amazing
  92. Ixedosss
    Aug 4, 2023
    3
    As a gamer who played all parts of this game I can tell on this :
    First impressions were good, but after 10-15 hours of gaming you realise that this game has weak plot and bunch of side quests. Literally, I was playing everyday around 3 hours with side quests and next day i was forgetting about the plot of this game. I remember in Diablo 2 my ass was burning while destroying all the    As a gamer who played all parts of this game I can tell on this :
    First impressions were good, but after 10-15 hours of gaming you realise that this game has weak plot and bunch of side quests. Literally, I was playing everyday around 3 hours with side quests and next day i was forgetting about the plot of this game. I remember in Diablo 2 my ass was burning while destroying all the bosses, in this game they are so weak (they just copied them from in Diablo 2 plus few garbage ones) even when you start new game as an experienced Diablo player. The only good thing in this game is graphics. I've got this game for free when I bought 4080 and I feel sorry for all gamers who paid 70 bucks for this trash    … Expand
  93. hellodestin
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    My hand has arthritis pain after playing Diablo 4. Since the developer thought it would be cool to NOT include WASD movement...you have to move with a billion left mouse clicks OR keep the left mouse button pressed for as long as you play. Another WIERD lgbtqi++ decision was to force you to play an obese person if you want to be a Druid. wtf
  94. Grenna
    Aug 16, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros: Good story, addictive per usual as a Diablo game for awhile until the endgame where it's a total droppoff in terms of wanting to keep playing the game, great music, great artwork as always from Blizzard.
    Cons: Aspect system is interesting, but I'd prefer a system of sets, loot for other classes like D2 had, runewords, etc. Expand on D2, don't reinvent the wheel. Horse is buggy. PVP doesn't really seem enticing. Social functions could be better. No replaying the big bosses once you hit endgame or skip the campaign. I'd love to fight Andariel and Duriel again!    … Expand
  95. Smoey
    Sep 3, 2023
    2
    Rereview September 3rd: After the initial enjoyment ne excitement for Season 1 I haven’t logged in for weeks. It’s become monotonous, extremely slow and it seems to be getting worse. I’m fully convinced blizzard has lost the meaning of the word fun and has completely pivoted to corporate greed.

    ——- Original 9/10 The world is gritty and expansive, the little details and sounds you    Rereview September 3rd: After the initial enjoyment ne excitement for Season 1 I haven’t logged in for weeks. It’s become monotonous, extremely slow and it seems to be getting worse. I’m fully convinced blizzard has lost the meaning of the word fun and has completely pivoted to corporate greed.

    ——-
    Original 9/10

    The world is gritty and expansive, the little details and sounds you hear while venturing around are amazing. The story, albeit short, was enjoyable to follow, I just wish it was longer.

    There's a lot to do but the world group activities are few and far between, this needs to be addressed as soon as possible with either more content for world events or lowering the time between the current events.

    PVP is fine, I would not recommend anyone looking for a PVP game to go into this thinking it's going to scratch that itch.

    The graphics and sound quality are amazing, the immersion it brings is fantastic.

    Overall I'd rate this a 9/10, Solid foundations, enjoyable story, a vast world to explore and a path to an even better game with future releases.    … Expand
  96. 1337GameeR
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    When is the Release Date of Diablo3???

    .... cuz I dont have a Phone or PC with Internet

    AGAINST immorality and greed!!!
  97. ian_flynn
    Sep 11, 2023
    2
    A great game that has been killed by Blizzards incompotence at the Season 1.1.0 Patch, Microtransactions and a multitude of Pointless Useless Stats.
    The moral of the story is don't kill your game with pointless and needless nerfs. I am glad that I waited a few weeks to do the review.
  98. Bloodworks3
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Blizzard managed to create a game so disappointing & frustrating that almost everyone who quits, RAGE QUITS.

    Plenty of other reviews cover the reasons why Diablo 4 is hot garbage. One of the worst games I've ever bought. I will never buy anything from them again. Search Actman Diablo 4 and watch any of his related reviews. Search Blizzard lawsuits. I scheduled my G.D. vacation    Blizzard managed to create a game so disappointing & frustrating that almost everyone who quits, RAGE QUITS.

    Plenty of other reviews cover the reasons why Diablo 4 is hot garbage. One of the worst games I've ever bought. I will never buy anything from them again.

    Search Actman Diablo 4 and watch any of his related reviews. Search Blizzard lawsuits.

    I scheduled my G.D. vacation time for the D4 release & 3 days into playing it stopped being fun. I'm still upset. What a scam.

    The once great Blizzard North was bought out over a decade ago and none of the brilliant minds still work there at what is now called Activision Blizzard. I didn't know this until after buying D4. Blizzard pumps out flashy games with no substance and puts the Blizzard stamp on it to cash in on nostalgia and utilize predatory in game cash transaction practices. Their games are pure marketing & sales. Look at reviews for any of their games in the last decade. I wish I had.

    Don't believe the positive critic reviews or the fake positive reviews masquerading as negative ones. Blizzard pays for those to confuse people

    D4 Motto: If you're not having fun you're either playing wrong or too much.    … Expand
  99. shedn11
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    D4 is a good game from a technical perspective but sadly once again terrible in the game design department. For more objectivity, i'll split it in 10 categories:

    Visuals/Cinematics: The visuals overall are amazing, rich in detail and follow a darker theme like in d1/d2. The cinematics are on par with top quality movies. Blizzard definitely nailed this category and it's probably the    D4 is a good game from a technical perspective but sadly once again terrible in the game design department. For more objectivity, i'll split it in 10 categories:

    Visuals/Cinematics:
    The visuals overall are amazing, rich in detail and follow a darker theme like in d1/d2. The cinematics are on par with top quality movies. Blizzard definitely nailed this category and it's probably the strongest argument to buy the game - 1/1.

    Sounds/Music:
    The soundtrack in some of the boss fights and/or Towns is top tier quality. Soundeffects are satisfying and overall feel great. This is also an easy 1/1.

    Performance:
    I tried to run D4 with an older setup and it still runs pretty decent (60 fps) on low/medium settings. The game also runs good on consoles. Almost zero issues, bugs or crashes so far. D4 stands out positively especially in comparison with other AAA-titles in that regard - 1/1.

    Campaign:
    In my personal opinion, the campaign is well designed and has a great finale. Some parts are a bit tedious though and you have to run around too much. Also you can't fight the campagin bosses again later in the game, although some of them were fun to fight against - in summary 0,5/1.

    UI/QoL:
    Unfortunately the UI is a weird mix, concipated for mobile phones and/or consoles, which makes it terrible to use on a PC. No search or filter functions, no gem tab, weird emote wheels, aspects all look the same etc. D3 was already miles better in that regard, so this category is a 0/1.

    Combat:
    While the combat itself feels fluid and satisfying, the ressource concept of generator generator generator spender is horrible. D3 already made this mistake so i'm baffled Blizzard once again came up with this crap. The vulnerable mechanic is unnecessary and reduces diversity in viable skills and items. Overall 0/1.

    PvP:
    The idea of combat zones is nice but it's terribly executed. Lvl 70 get mixed with Lvl 100, solo players get mixed with groups etc. It's generally unfair and unfun - 0/1.

    Character Diversity:
    Practically non-existant. You have to follow a pre-determined path and 5 Skill Points in one ability is the maximum. Better than D3, but worse than D2. The paragon boards are a fun idea so i'll give this category a 0,5/1.

    Itemization/Loot:
    Honestly if u need to think hard of a preferably terrible itemization you would come up with something like in d4. There's practically no uniques (8 per class), no runewords, no crafting but a blur of useless affixes. Also the stats on everything is hugely inflated already, so expect billions of damage like in D3. 0/1

    Endgame:
    Nothing innovative to see here. Tree of Whispers are dumbed down bounties, Dungeons are boring and plagued with annoying tasks, Helltides are recycled Terror Zones from D2R. World bosses get zerged after 1 Minute. Expect to be bored at Lvl 70, or even at Lvl 60. 0/1

    So overall, it's a 4/10 for me and thus nowhere near the "professional" reviews. Season 1 has to fix a lot things, or the game could die quickly.

    Edit: Season 1 actually doesnt fix anything but makes the game worse, so i changed my rating to 2/10    … Expand
  100. Zephyrghost_
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    This game is an insult to human intelligence.
    What is the Diablo IV killer?
    Path of Exile? NO.
    Baldurs Gate III? NO.
    Blizzard Entertainment? Absolutely yes. The game is dead now with the new season 1 patch. I cannot dedicate another set of hundreds of hours to grind from level 1 to 100, with the bloody nerfed characters. Go screw yourself Blizzard.
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  1. Positive: 82 out of 90
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  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Aug 29, 2023
    66
    It’s almost like Diablo 4 developers are consciously fighting against everything that made classic Diablo fun. [Issue#262, p.80]
  2. GameCritics
    Jul 10, 2023
    65
    While the future of the game is anyone’s guess, at present Diablo IV is a solid, but strangely unambitious take that fails to bring much new to the table. By the end of my travels, I was more than willing to put it down and take a break — somewhere amongst all the grinding, Diablo IV had unfortunately ground me down as well.
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  3. Meristation
    Jul 7, 2023
    90
    The best Blizzard launch in a long time and a worthy game to be called Diablo.
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